30 'Happy' quotes to lift your spirits

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." Groucho Marx - actor, comedian, writer

"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of other." Gordon B. Hinckley - religious leader, writer

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky - writer

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." Robert Frost – poet

"Happiness is a warm puppy.” Charles M. Schulz - cartoonist

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” Martin Luther King Jr. - Civil Rights leader, writer, pastor

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” Martha Washington - America's first First Lady

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” F. Scott Fitzgerald – writer

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” Louisa May Alcott - writer

“I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” Henry David Thoreau - writer

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.” James Oppenheim - writer

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” Aeschylus - Greek writer

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?" Albert Einstein - scientist

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” Ingrid Bergman – actress

"If you want to be happy, be." Leo Tolstoy - writer

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." Dalai Lama

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